You guys semm not to come in so good with the Death-metal
trend going on. So why stand up and do this interview for close up (isn't it
against your principles)?
Well, we dont count Close-up as some fucking trend-zine.But ofcourse it would be
fucking irretating if we came in the same place as THERION or any other of those
idiotbands.But our economy doesnt primit us to isolate ourself completly from
the outer-world even if it would of been wonderful! Its incredible irretating to
see all this shity trendbands that exsists we hate them so much so words cant
describe.In Sweden there area only 5 good bands: MERCILESS , ABRUPTUM ,
DISSECTION , MARDUK and BATHORY. DEATH to all the trendy "DEATH" metal-bands
with jogging paint and society texts, they have nothing to do with death-metal.
We call bands such as THERION and AFFLICTED(and about 340 other swedish bands)
for LIFE METAL 'coz they dont worship death but life instead. What the fuck has
Hardcore lyrics to do with evil music? The fools(idiots) have jumped on a wave
and we are sure that 90% of the swedish LIFE METAL bands played Heavy Metal or
some commercial Trash before the they discoverd 'MORBID ANGEL '89 or '90.The
ones who are doing this are a insult towards what death-metal from the beginning
stod for and its a insult towards us. MAYHEM is the only band from the beginning
of the 80ties whom still exsists without wimping out.Its a shame(hell) to see
all these new idiot who jump on the wind without knowing anything of what
Death-metal really from the beginning was. We are nearly sure that none of these
trend bands have heard VENOM, whom they can thank there existence for. And the
matter of THERION, who is the worst of all swedish bands, we have a special
message to them. If they dare to came to Norway and play LIFE METAL, we are
going to kill them. The whole of Norways Black metal population is going to be
there with knifes .

When can we await a new record from Mayhem?
We are going to play 'De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas' about the same time that this
mag cames out. Its going to be EVIL!! Normal idiots should stay the fuck away
from this record. DON'T BUY IT!. It's not for you, but for the evil. However
it's going to be a big fucking diffrence from all the trendmusic. Normal people
will not understand the music as we will put it so high standard over all
MORRISOUND SUNLIGHT shit and the typical song which sounds like a dog with cold
VOFF VOFF . MAYHEM record is going to very fucking fast and will be filled with
evil and mood.

How come you haven't found a new singer and are instead using yourself of the
Polish Tormentor's vocalist Attila Cshiar?
Because his so damn good! He is one of the utmost best singers that exsists and
that he also comes from one of the most evil bands ever exsisting. Its now manny
who deserv to play on a MAYHEM record but he is one of does. There are thousands
of vocalists who sound like standard ENTOMBED/GRAVE/ CARNAGE/DISMEMBER-copies it
would never fall in us to take in such a singer in MAYHEM.Its the same as if
VENOM would have Michael Jackson. Its by the way good that 'Drutten Blames'
started in ENTOMBED again, 'coz the idiot that sang with them here in NORWAY(we
where for the worse at the concert)was the worst we ever heard. Fuck its so
fucking lousy. Absolutly anyone can bludder "BJFFA".The problem is that every
does it also.

For a year ago your singer Dead took his life. As it was you who found the
body maybe you can tell us why he shoot himself?
When it comes to DEAD than he was a very EVIL MAN (GOAT). He hated all that
lived. The only thing which keept him from shooting himself earlier was the
BLACK METAL/DEATH METAL way of lifestyle, with evil bands that worshipped death
and wore black clothes, nitar(dont know how to translate/NECRO), leather,
bullet-belts and everything else which hade to do with the real lifestyle. It
was so the old bands lived, like BATHORY, SODOM,HELLHAMMER, while bands such as
THERION where still sucking milk from there mothers breasts. DEAD lived only for
this and all the old bands died and LIFE METAL bands in there softpants and
baseball shoes took over, then he hadde nothing more to live for. The scene was
destroyed. Another reason was that he meant that he didnt belong on this world.
He tought it was cold and his blood frose to ice all the time. We support what
he did and we respect his never sinning hate. After GOATS death there have been
actually alot better , there have came alot of fucking good bands which live
according to the old true identities. Norway is the bossland, bands such as
IMMORTAL, BURZUM, DARKTHRONE, THORNS , MALFEITOR, INCARNATOR and so on are
undescribebly good and incredible EVIL.

Was his death awaited, I mean had he spoke of comitting suicide?
Yes, it was awaited. We hade spoken a great deal about that one day we would
find him hanging from the ceiling, but fortunatly he was more evil and he had
even cut himself something so terrible before he shoot himself.

The talk has went around that you took a picture of his corpse to use in your
new record cover, and also send pieces of his head to the most loyal Mayhem
fanatics. Isn't that a quiete sick?
WE ARE FOR FUCK'S SAKE NOT A HUMANITARIAN JOKEBAND! When we say that we are into
death-metal then it means we worship the dead. There is nothing that is to raw,
disgusting or sick(morbid). People who dont understand this can GO TO HELL!.

Where have you thought to record your new LP "De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas"?
Its not completly sure where yet.... We are right now looking for a good pair of
studios. The most evil would be if we could record it in TRANSYLVANIEN, but that
is of course impossible.

You have also begun to put alot of in your "Deathlike Silence" record Co. and
also opened a record store here in Oslo by the name Helvete (Hell). How is it
going?
We are working like hell with DSP nowadays and we have a few evil record on the
way.We have just released a record with the norwegien black-metal band BURZUM.
Its really good, incredibly moody, hysterical and melodic.It reminds a bit of a
mixture beetwen old BATHORY,HELLHAMMER and actually MAYHEM. After that a new
pressing of 'DEATHCRUSH' and ABRUPTUM's LP "OBSCURITATEM ADVOCO AMPLECTERE ME",
That record is the most fucked thing ever recorded, its not normal music but
instead 50 minutes of evil.They had tortured each other during the recording in
the studio and you can hear that they are suffering. DAMN GOOD! Normal people
should fear this record. After ABRUPTUM they new MAYHEM and later a record with
TORMENTOR. The band is now dissolved, but will be a monument over one of the
world most brutal bands. We also have other plans, like MONUMENTUM's LP and a
new BURZUM rec. We will also do a new pressing(volume) of MERCILESS 'The
Awakening'.We have hade alot of economical problems the last year and MERCILESS
deserve better sypport than what they have been getting so far.'The Awakening'
is the 1st swedish record that came out(execpt BATHORY), it came way before
ENTOMBED hade released anything. People hade not even discoverd how good
MERCILESS actually are.It's brutal like hell without being trendy. Within a near
future the record will be in every record store in Sweden, also on CD. We are
working on to get a real good distribution, but its not completly sure what
going to happen yet, but its possible that we fix a distrobution thru SPV.
HELVETE is a very evil record store. We wish we only could sell Black metal and
real Death metal, but we are forced to sell trend to trendy people to get cash.
Its cool to suck out money from them and put it on evil bands such as ABRUPTUM
instead. Its also better than that we sell the records that are indemand then
that som HC-swin/Punk-idiots make money on the music they shall keep far away
from.If we dont sell these records then someone else will do it and its nearly
fool prof that some idiot that has nothing whatsoever to do with the music is
selling them.And we have also been into this form of music since the beginning
in the 80'ties so we know what where doing.

You are known to succed to live way under existence minimum for years. Where
does then all this money came from that you are using to start and support on
your company and shop?
We have been able to borrow abit of money from inc. BURZUM and then there comes
a bit from the pre-post ordered stuff. Its not alot of money we have to live on,
but we survive. So far everything has been going well.Were going to make a
little money on the BURZUM rec. that we later on can continue to invest in
MAYHEM, ABRUPTUM and TORMENTOR. Hopefully things will turn better as time
continues. But during manny times we have been without food for a week and DEAD
lived even for 2 months in the woods and lived on everything he found there.
MAYHEM have had HELL, but the worse things get the harder it will take to knock
us down and we can stand back against more . WE NEVER GIVE UP. It has even
happened that we had periods were we just didnt have food but also shelter(place
to stay) or to rehearse plus our instruments fuck up. AT THE SAME TIME! but our
time is coming.

You are going to release a new press of "Deathcrush", why? According to your
interviews you have done then only the real fans of Black/death meatl should buy
your records and they ought to already have "Deathcrush"?
The problem is simply that it wasnt just the evil that got there hands on
'DEATHCRUSH' but also a hell of alot of trendidiots. There are alot of raw dudes
today who doesnt have this rec. and thats fucking irretating. And we also hade a
limited release press, '87 we thought we werent going to sell more than 1000
rec. We needed money to survive, i dont see no reason that we shouldnt release
'DEATHCRUSH' again. It will thou be a diffrence on it from the original, so the
ones who have 1st press can fill that they have something. Besides everything
the record was sold in the black-market in Singapore for 700kr for a few years
ago, and then without a cover . But its true that we only want given people to
own the MAYHEM rec. If we had the economy we would ask people to send a picture
of themselves and answer a question form for approval for buying a MAYHEM
records.

It was a long time ago since you released anything, aren't you afraid that
people have forgotten about you?
NO! The ones who are really raw are still continueing to be so as there havent
came out so manny brutal records, so they have instead waited for the new MAYHEM
for 5 yrs. They see that we also live to the true lifestyle and then you dont
become forgotten. And there is also a bunch of evil rumours about MAYHEM 'coz we
are a big diffrence from Life metalbands and that only creates more
depend(intresse). And another thing that is good is that we havent released any
rec. before now, As its only around now we are getting really satisfied with our
music.

Why this extreme pull to both music and politics (Stalinism)?
People know we are sick, and we give a fuck. Thats what we live(die) for...
stalinismen. We hate does 'PEACE,LOVE and DEMOCRAZY'-ideas. WAR, SODOMY and
DICTATION! We support all extreme and opressed states like the old ALBANIEN ,
IRAN , KAMPUCHEA under the RED KHMEERS and so on. People who are dying and
suffering!

Do you sill believe in communism after the fall of it nearly all over the
world?
We have studied so much politics/teori/economy (Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin ,
Mao, Hoxha) that we know that the world will sooner or later become communistic.
Its the marketing economy and capitalisms ideas that will be forced forward
sooner or later. Maybe in 30yrs, maybe in 300yrs. The problem is that communism
is fucking good for the people, its total freedom. Thats why we never wish that
it happens. The world can go to hell. We want back the old
stalinist-dictatorship, there its was grey, misery and evil. THE BERLIN WALL
SHALL RISE AGAIN!!

Are you yourself politicly active?
We were member of a parti who was very extreme, they supported the old Albanien
and there former leader who even was in Kampuchea under the Red Khmeers and ate
dinner with Pol Pot! Incredibly good! But the party turned to humanitarien, so
we shall leave it.

Well Mayhem play live sometime in the future?
We refuse to play live! Its only trendchildren, moshers, skater and HC-swines
that go to conserts. We dont play for such a low standard flok. We will play
live, but it has to be together with evil band for a evil public and that is
economicaly impossible to arrange. Today there are only idiot-concerts arranged
where you mix everything possible, like BERGSLAGS-ROCKEN. What does that have to
do with death? Punknuts like Babs should stay the hell away from death-metal.
MAYHEM will never play such a concert. We have been discusing a to build up a
Eastern-europe togheter with other evil bands like IMMORTAL and DARKTHRONE
sometime in the future coz its completly OK to play in 'strange' countries. We
played in Turky 1990, and thats was nice(cool). We will never play a concert
infront of a normal public,
THEY CAN GO TO HELL.